Re: Restoring desktop configuration

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

Sounds like Sawfish crashed.  You could open a terminal and run the
"Sawfish" command, then save your session and log out.  

On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 11:35, Robert Ian Smit wrote:
> Something wreaked havoc on my Gnome-desktop last week. I believe it
> was Galeon having loaded a website that threw up a bunch of "install
> crap" dialogs. I lost my panels and all toolbars and buttons on
> windows. I could use the terminal for instance but could not move,
> resize or configure options. After logging in again, the same thing
> happened. There was an error message, but that vanished before I
> could read it. Something about a deskguide I think.
> 
> I killed X and went in to my Gnome dotfiles. I couldn't find
> anything obvious. In the end I made a backup of anything closely
> related to Gnome in ~/ and removed the original files. After that, I
> had a fresh setup and copied back my most important settings.
> 
> It is safe to assume that something like this will happen again some
> time. What then are the obvious files to remove? I guess files
> regarding to sessions and dynamic config-files. Which are these?
> 
> I am running Sawfish 1.0.1 and the Gnome from Debian/testing. Can't
> find out quickly which one that is. Let me know if that is important.
> 
> On a related note, is there something like a Gnome-user community
> apart from this list akin to what you will find when you hit the
> homepage of that other desktop environment.
> 
> Thanks for any information,
> 
> Bob
>